A Simple Mathematical Model of War Events

Césare Marchetti. A simple Mathematical Model of Wor Events. A methodology is presented capable of modeling social affairs with great mathematical parsimony. The basic hypothesis is that human actions are the physical consequence of the cultural diffusion of action models or action paradigms. Sequences of events can then be modeled using diffusion equations which, in the simplest cases, are logistics. To illustrate the applicability of this concept to historical events we have analyzed a set of data relating to World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. The analysis will reveal a property we observed for social behavior in general, i.e., the system is (quasi) fractal, meaning that the same equations (but with different parameters) can describe it at various hierarchical levels

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